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What is behind Wiggins' Giro withdrawal?
18 May 2013Sir Bradley Wiggins’ withdrawal from the 2013 Giro d’Italia – according to Team Sky’s website “on the medical advice of the team doctor due to illness” – raises questions over how Wiggo will be remembered when he hangs up his helmet. For a man who has won gold medals at three Olympic games, was the [...]
Tom Waterhouse: the George W Bush of bookmaking
30 Apr 2013In a lot of ways, Tom Waterhouse is reminiscent of George W Bush. You start with the surface stuff – the swagger, the smug grin, the just plain annoying way they talk and the smutty jokes both men’s surnames lend themselves to. But toilet gags aside, let’s delve deeper in to the Waterhouse and Bush [...]
Walking alone in Liverpool
4 Apr 2013As an Aussie living in Liverpool, it was with a small glow of pride I read this week the boys from Anfield would be heading down under in July. You’d hardly call me a dyed-in-the-wool Reds fan. It’s more like I recently spilled a bottle of red wine on a white shirt – but I [...]
Supporting a 'druggy' club in the NRL
13 Feb 2013Since the Australian Crime Commission announced its report into doping, match-fixing and organised crime in sport, many rugby league supporters have had sleepless nights, unsure whether their club was involved. As a supporter of the Newcastle Knights, I’ve slept the sound sleep of a man confident of the immediate outcome. I have no inside knowledge [...]
TDU blameless in the Lance Armstrong saga
23 Jan 2013It’s clear a lot of people in the Lance Armstrong doping scandal have not escaped with a clean reputation. Yet if there’s one party without blame, it’s the South Australian government. That sentence seems so obvious as to be a non-sequitur – why the hell would an Australian state government even be brought up in [...]
Lance turns on the waterworks
20 Jan 2013From the moment we heard Lance Armstrong was going to be interviewed by Oprah Winfrey, we all knew at some point in the interview Oprah’s gentle questioning would cause tears to flow. It’s what she does and, from a PR point of view, it’s what Lance needed to do. But when the waterworks finally came, [...]
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